Low-tech architectures: Society and resilience.

The low-tech attitude, an anglicism used for " low tech ", advocates a measured use of technological elements, to reduce environmental impacts as much as possible and respond to development challenges in a more sustainable and equitable manner. It is an approach aimed at questioning and evaluating real human needs and thus developing simple, user-friendly, resilient and inclusive practices. Low-tech acts on the interactions of the system to modify them, taking care not to induce new feedback loops that are destabilizing on the ecological, socioeconomic and political levels. The book explores the potential of low-tech applied to the fields of architecture and urban planning in the current context of climate and energy crisis. The authors present this approach as a response to the excessive use of energy and materials in both the construction of new buildings and renovations. Low-tech is not a doctrine or a catalog of ready-made solutions, but rather a permanent concern for sustainability that applies to an approach rather than a result. Here are brought together field experiences under the aegis of Ademe, which demonstrate the different strategies of economy and rationality in the phases of production of objects, spaces, services, since the large urban dimension to private space. An invitation to analyze each process and take stock of the choices with regard to their environmental impact, in order to leave a certain technical rigidity to the past.